Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Language is fossil poetry.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

The beasts had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, To mask their brows and hide their infamy; But I alone, alone must sit and pine, Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine, Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans, Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.

Beneath these green trees rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies; The time shall come when these green trees shall fall, And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.